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Sky Ocean Rescue to partner with ‘Turn the Tide on Plastic’ Volvo Ocean Race team

22 October 2017

Sky Ocean Rescue to partner with ‘Turn the Tide on Plastic’ Volvo Ocean Race team: Sky has stepped up its Ocean Rescue campaign and partnered with ‘Turn the Tide on Plastic’, a team competing in the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race beginning in Spain on Sunday. Led by the race’s only female skipper, veteran British sailor Dee Caffari MBE, Turn the Tide on Plastic will use on-board data gathering equipment to measure water quality and composition, as well as micro-plastics in some of the world’s remotest oceans. Caffari will be the first in Volvo Ocean Race history to lead a 50-50 gender split crew from nine different nationalities and the team is part of the UN Environment’s ‘Clean……